Audace
November 2004. A nightclub called La Suite in Paris. No studio. No agent. No plan. Just a camera and a refusal to follow anyone else's rulebook. Six years. Paris to Bangkok. The laboratory where every CAZEBA series was born.
From a duplex in Paris to the White House. From borrowed clothes to gallery walls.
The Circus
À La Poupée Merveilleuse · Twenty Minutes
A costume shop on Rue du Temple. Two silver umbrellas. Seven people who had no reason to be in the same room — except that I put them there. The very first mise-en-scène I ever shot. Twenty minutes before closing. The chaos was real. The image was planned. That tension became the signature.
Illegal Immigrantz
JFK Airport · Born from Humiliation
Thirty minutes after The Circus, the same evening. Detained earlier at JFK customs for an hour. A cap, a wide smile, a look apparently too extravagant for the criteria. Hôtel Duo, Paris. A clown reading the Herald Tribune next to a woman in a corset. The conditions of acceptance, photographed.
Obarama Boyz
Three Faces · One Flag · A Letter to the President
Bedroom studio, Paris duplex. A maxi-production with zero budget. The model — a man I met at La Suite — became the canvas. Body paint, available light, American flag on three faces. The triptych reads right to left: slavery, emancipation, victory. Sent to President Obama in 2016 before he left the White House. The bedroom became 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Tear of Love
Place Clichy · Maxi Prod · Body Paint & La Fée
Paris, Place Clichy bedroom studio. The early years where every shoot was a maxi-production with zero budget. A black woman, skin like deep night, body-painted white by my make-up artist Véronique "La Fée." Angel wings. A blue mouth with silver glitter. A boa around her neck. A single tear on the left of her face. Same era as The Circus, Illegal Immigrantz, and the first Voodoo portraits — the bedroom became the laboratory.
Terry's World — What the Hell Is This!
EXS Band · Universal Music · A Book, A Friend, A Frame
Paris, 2005–2006. The first band cover I ever shot — EXS, signed to Universal Music. Backyard. Drums. Silver bikini. A book in the frame: Terryworld by Terry Richardson — a gift from my best friend at the time, Marc-André Durand, when I first started photography. Twenty years later, the book is still here. So is the work. The friends who believe in you before anyone else — they deserve to be named.
Serenity Aspekt
Photo Art Asia · Central World · Sold for HIV-Positive Children
Created in the Place Clichy bedroom studio (2004–2006) — a tattooed silhouette against pure black, wild hair catching the light like a crown. Two years later in Bangkok, selected by Jaffee Yee for Photo Art Asia 2008 — the first major art photography exhibition in Asia, held at Central World Bangkok with ten photographers across the region. Acquired by a private collector. 100% of profits funded HIV-positive children in Thailand. The bridge between Paris and Bangkok. The first time social impact and market value sat in the same room.
The Geisha
Melanie Marie · Ogilvy Action Creative Meeting Room
Bangkok modeling circuit. I meet Melanie Marie — Australian model, future actress in Goa (2010, Venkat Prabhu, Ocher Picture Productions). The concept built in a creative meeting room at Ogilvy Action Bangkok. Bejeweled lips. Surreal make-up. The portrait that became iconic — distributed through Leon Le Baron / CM Création at nearly 20,000 prints worldwide. A quarter of everything I ever sold in retail.
Million Dollars Kiss
The Mouth of the Geisha · Bejeweled
Same session. Same model. A close-up on the bejeweled lips of the Geisha. Photographed open-mouthed, then mirrored horizontally and reconstructed in Photoshop. The lips became a portrait in themselves. A gesture compressed into a single image.
Living on the Sea
IPA Awards 2007 · 3rd Place Advertising · The First Iconic Mise-en-Scène
Commissioned by Ogilvy Bangkok via Mitch Webber for The Yamu by Philippe Starck — a luxury resort on Cap Yamu, Phuket. The brief: shoot beautiful people in a beautiful environment. The reality: imported white sand had been taken back to sea by the tide.
So I moved the entire team further out — to a sandbank abandoned by the tide. Placed a sofa, a coffee table, and a mirror. No one asked me to. The first iconic mise-en-scène was born. The image was later used on 3×4m billboards across Thailand. And won my first international recognition — IPA Awards 2007, 3rd Place Advertising.
Le ciel, la mer et l'élu
Conceptual Fine Art · Surrealism Series · Panoramic Edition
On the beaches of the Gulf of Thailand in 2008, I created what became signature surreal images. The Chevalier Sans Cheval. Abstraction of Time. 1729 — The Dawn of Surrealism. And then this one. A silhouette against the storm. Every element makes sense separately. Together, they create something that shouldn't exist but does. The signature image of the Bangkok Surreal Beach series.
Da Fucked Up
The Nurse · Marilyn in Dutch Dots · A Year on Fashion TV
The KALOKASH campaign — Swiss designer · a multicultural fairytale where one t-shirt could turn anyone into any character. An angel. A nun. A Maasai warrior. A Snow White. A nurse. Cast over dinner at Bangkok's Koi Bar — the modeling hub of the city. Same night, the chairman of Fashion TV sits at the table behind me. A conversation. A yes. The next day's backstage video airs in replay on Fashion TV for a full year. The keeper of that shoot: Da Fucked Up — a Thai-European nurse seated on a designer chair, Marilyn Monroe in Dutch dots wallpapered behind her, middle finger raised at the world that called her a stereotype.
Once Upon a Time
Natalie Glebova · Miss Universe 2005 · SCAD Ambassador
Bangkok, 2009. Commissioned by Ogilvy Action Bangkok via Mitch Webber, sponsored by PURINA — Your Pet, Our Passion (Nestlé Purina). Once Upon a Time opens the SCAD Calendar 2010 — Natalie Glebova, Miss Universe 2005, as SCAD Ambassador, captured with her cat Molly. A fairytale frame where high-fashion editorial meets rescue animals from Soi Cats and Dogs (SCAD). 13 original artworks across the calendar — cover plus twelve months. 100% of profits to SCAD Bangkok — rescuing and treating hundreds of stray cats and dogs.
Museum-Quality Prints. Limited Editions.
All Audace photographs are produced as limited edition fine art prints, signed, numbered, dated on verso, and accompanied by certificates of authenticity. Printed on museum-grade substrates — Giclée, C-Print, or Fujiflex Cibachrome — with optional Diasec mounting. Produced in U.K., France, Belgium, or Netherlands by professional photo labs.
Exhibited at GRK Gallery Paris · Art Monaco · Miami River Art Fair · Photo Art Asia Bangkok · SCAD Calendar 2010 Cover.
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ludo@cazeba.com →Beyond These Twelve Works
The twelve signature works above are only the opening chapter. Audace also includes the Q Bar series — David Jacobson's legendary Bangkok nightlife institution, with portraits, mise-en-scènes, and night studies between 2007–2009. The Flow Cocktail book project — developed with Dannie, Ben Sorum, Chanond Purananda & Ning Nonthiwat Prabhananda; the book was never published, but the photographs outlived it by twenty years. Grand Pa's Fantaisy. Portrait of Angel. La Pertinence. The Chevalier Sans Cheval. 1729 — The Dawn of Surrealism. Voodoo Tryptik. The Phenix. Dark Angel. Madame Waagaard. The full corpus is available to qualified galleries, curators, and collectors on request.
The cocktail book was never published. The photographs outlived the project by twenty years and counting.
The Box Opened. It Never Closed.
Audace is still growing. Twenty years of images that refused to follow the rules — now available as limited edition fine art prints. The DNA still powers everything that came after: Hôtel Particulier, Afterglow Vegas, Wynwood Chronicles — and the next series in the studio.
Prices on request. Every work is unique to its acquirer.